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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820523803321

Autore

Ingersoll Thomas N

Titolo

To intermix with our white brothers [[electronic resource] ] : Indian mixed bloods in the United States from earliest times to the Indian removals / / Thomas N. Ingersoll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2005

ISBN

1-283-63528-3

0-8263-3289-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (474 p.)

Disciplina

323.11/0597/000973

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Mixed descent

Indians of North America - Cultural assimilation

Indians of North America - Government relations

Racially mixed people - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references p. (374-425) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: John or Teyoninhokarawen? -- Policies to limit race mixture in early North America from earliest times to 1776 -- Becoming sons and daughters of the forest : racial mixture in the American colonies and revolutionary states from earliest times to the 1830s -- "Dark-eyed Houris of the Metiff blood" : mixed bloods as "halfbreed" outcasts -- Mixed bloods and a "middle ground" of acculturation -- Mixed bloods and the rise of racial formalism : from Jefferson to Jackson -- Defenders of the homeland and racial pluralists, or, "A pascle of designing speculating individuals?" : mixed-blood leaders, racial formalism, and federal removal policy -- Epilogue: Mixed bloods after the era of the removals.

Sommario/riassunto

The Native Americans of mixed ancestry in 1830 and why Andrew Jackson implemented a law to remove them.